Home of the Engineer/Troublemaker v2

Cutting back

“I was fooling myself if I thought I could easily abandon anything superhero-related.”10/16/16 webpage post

Right now I’m sitting on my couch watching an episode of “Arrow” that’s been languishing on my DVR for almost a month. And I started the evening with an equally ancient episode of “The Flash.” It’s safe to say that despite what I wrote last month I haven’t been keeping up with all the superhero shows I record each week. None of the others either, come to think of it. I haven’t even watched “Once Upon A Time” in three weeks and it’s my favorite! Between work and my strict exercise regimen I just don’t have time to devote to television these days. As much as I’d like to veg out sometimes. This probably explains why my DVR was almost full when I got back from Arkansas on Monday. I needed to take drastic action! The first show on the chopping block was “Supergirl.” Even though it is part of the suite of superhero programming on the CW I haven’t even caught up on season 1 on Netflix yet. And barring something that sidelines me for a while, like a week-long illness, I have no chance of being ready to watch the current season’s episodes anytime soon. So “Supergirl” is toast. Next up was “Elementary.” I’m a huge fan of everything related to Sherlock Holmes, but this is one of the shows at the bottom of my priority list. I figured that with all of the other programs out there to entertain myself I wouldn’t even miss my weekly dose of the British detective. I’d much rather wait for the return of “Sherlock” on PBS in January anyway! So that’s two shows stricken from the record. After that I realized I had freed up a decent amount of space on my DVR so further cuts weren’t necessary. Yet. We’ll see how far behind on my TV watching I get over the holidays. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to watch an episode of “Legends of Tomorrow” before I go to bed!